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[Chickielady]

Would this work with a 3 day old chick? How would he eat? I like the image of a "cuppa chick".

Doing a lot of reading up on it right now to figure out the method I'm going to be using....

Jennifer

The idea is the same, wether you hobble or tape their feet down, the idea is to keep their feet together under them.
The coffee cup just forces them to stand, where as if there is no cup, often the chick just lays on the ground & a few times they have never learned to stand at all.
Hence the coffee cup...

 

[Chickielady]

Whoot, whoot. Alright, it won't be long now. (said the monkey when he caught his tail in the lawn mower)

 

[Chickielady]

X's like 3 or 4!!!!

Gosh it feels like it has taken an eternity to get to this point !!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

You know that trick people always recommend to float seeds on top of a bucket of water to kill rats? Would that trick work for squirrels too?

No clue...I just made 2 of the 5 gallon bucket traps with spinning pop bottle, smeared with pean nut buuter, and have caught nothing..............

 

[Chickielady]

Hmm...I don't know, squirrels can jump / climb better than rats, so I would think they could get out...


A .22 has worked wonders for our squirrel problem! LOL

The .410 works great too !!!

 

[Chickielady]

Hmm...I don't know, squirrels can jump / climb better than rats, so I would think they could get out...


A .22 has worked wonders for our squirrel problem! LOL

A second quote:

You should have seen DH trying to hit a chipmunk with the nailgun !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

Well, I don't think it's legal to shoot guns in Seattle, not that I would ever own one in the city anyway (just a personal choice). Nor can I afford to buy one, not even a pellet gun. That's why I thought of the seed trap, though my BF is insisting on trying deterrent methods first as he is a big old softie. I love wild animals as much as the next person but I'd love to feed those little buggers to the dogs.

What about a wrist rocket ????????
Could be fun & entertaining !!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

for those fighting rats as most of us are.... here is the best description and photos of a bucket catcher I've seen so far.
http://theschultzcompound.blogspot.com/2012/06/rat-catcher.html

Yup, that is the best one I have ever seen too....and the exact next step I'm taking as the bottle spinners are not working.

 

[Chickielady]

Hey, here I am! Let's see if I can put a newish photo up, one moment please.

So, yeah: that pen is, as of about an hour ago, down four cockerels, who went off to the Coal Creek sale with my cousin Mike and four teenage boys, three of whom are joining FFA this year. I'm hoping to involve them in my scheme to buy a whole bunch of SSH's and Porcelein OEGBs, take the best pen of each, and let the kid keep the rest to show and sell.
I still need to get shed of one old BLRW rooster (the one I got from Rainwolf, who grew up to be a rank SOB and also does everything in Bizarro World fashion, including preventing his poor hen from eating and refusing most forms of chicken treats) and two red EE's (of last October's hatch of Kaneke's eggs, and hall bathroom brooding) but I didn't have sufficient transport containers, nor energy to do it.
CL's friend Andrea picked up fourteen Hamburg hatching eggs Thursday, so we will all pray/meditate on a high number of pullets, right? I figure I'm due, somehow, since of the 20 chicks I've hatched and the something like 60 from up the hill in the same period, we've had... what, maybe a dozen and a half hens reach POL?
Oh, hey, just realized I need to eat the other half of my breakfast and go take a nap. I was awakened in the wee small hours of the morning by my husband's voice saying "Oh, hello, big white cow" and got to go out in the frosty starlight to chase her in and chain the gate that some trespasser did not close correctly. We were lucky that it was one cow, no calves, not the bull; it could have been 31 all together and I do not know if any of you have dealt with thirty-one shorthorns at 3:30am while wearing your nighty, Carhardt hoody, and barn shoes so old they're probably more than 50% cow manure by weight, but I have, more than once, and it's really more of a life-enhancing experience than I'm currently up to.

Howdy Stranger !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yup, the eggs are in the incubator & will keep ya posted !!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

I chuckled when you said your chick kept falling over with hobbles on. Shoot - I keep falling over and I don't have hobbles on. I'm a natural clutz. Your chick had good reason to be one. I can only imagine trying to walk with my legs strapped together.

I do.....

But seriously, That is why I put the hobbled chick in the coffee cup for a day....just within 1 day the baby could walk after that.
I have done this 3-4 times, worked every time.
I do think the vet wrap would be easier to do than taping to cardboard though....next time I will go that route, but still use the cuppa-chick method.